Michigan State Gymnastics Coach Resigns Amid Sexual Assault Scandal

16/02/2017

Bobryk's statement says that Klages is "deeply disturbed" by the allegations about Nassar. Complaints surfaced that a Michigan State University sports physician has been sexually assaulting young gymnasts for almost 20 years.

Before Nassar was sacked in September 2016, he was an acclaimed sports-medicine physician who was the team doctor for MSU gymnasts.

Hollis says in this letter that Klages presided over a team meeting September 12, 2016 created to alert student athletes about the pending allegations against Nassar and give them resources.

This Nov. 21, 2016 photo provided by the Michigan Attorney General's office shows former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, who pleaded not guilty Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016, to three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in his home with a girl under 13.

Two weeks ago, Klages was named in court papers filed by a former gymnast who claimed that Nassar repeatedly molested her from 1997 to 1999 during invasive treatments while she was training in an MSU youth sports program.

And court documents filed last month allege that in the late 1990s Klages cautioned a different teenage girl who came forward with concerns about Nassar's treatment of her that filing a complaint could lead to "serious consequences" not only for Nassar but for her. Klages also told the girl, according to court documents, that the girl must have been "misunderstanding" or "reading into" the treatment Nassar was providing.

Klages is "extremely distressed" by the allegations and would never do anything to put athletes in "harm's way", her attorney, Shirlee Bobryk, said in a statement.

Lansing-area attorney Jamie White represents ten of Dr. Nassar's alleged victims, including a current scholarship member of the MSU women's gynmastics team.

"Klages explained that she had known Nassar for years and could not imagine him doing anything questionable", the complaint says. "Had she ever received any information to cast doubt on the appropriateness of that trust in Dr. Nassar, she would have reacted immediately to protect her gymnasts", the statement continued.

It also says Klages is retiring because she believes it's in "everyone's best interests". It aims to add four new women to a lawsuit against Nassar.

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